I worked on this while hurricane Sandy rattled our windows and sent sparks and arcs of electricity flying from the transformer in front of our house. I finished baking it just as we lost power. Now that we have power back I finally got a chance to take pictures. The fish are adapted from Christi Friesen's tutorial. Here's her website http://www.cforiginals.net

Thank you all for your kind words! I'm kind of in love with this vase and will actually be a little sad if it sells. My DH had no clue what I was doing smashing clay into our collection of corals! Recently I've been loving Christi's work and she has a ton of free and inexpensive tutorials (the fish are adapted [different fins, much larger] from one of her free ones).

I also didn't realize how messy my table was until I looked at these pictures again!

It's all built over a small trifle style dish. It's under 8" tall. I used a lot of translucent clay mixed with pinches of different blues and then marbled for the "water." I'm using a battery powered jack'o'latern light but a candle also works.